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-/opt/intel/bin/icc pairhmm-template-main.cc -o pairhmm-template-main.o -O3 -W -Wall -lm -xAVX; ./pairhmm-template-main.o < mediumTest.in > med.out; head -n -5 med.out > medium.out; lua checkLikelihoods.lua medium.out ~/hmm/mediumTest.out 6e-5
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-How to compile:
-/opt/intel/bin/icc pairhmm-template-main.cc -o pairhmm-template-main.o -O3 -W -Wall -lm -xAVX
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-How to run:
-./pairhmm-template-main.o < ./test_data/largeTest.in > large.out
-./pairhmm-template-main.o < ./test_data/mediumTest.in > medium.out
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-Results:
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-MEDIUM FLOAT:
-AVX Read Time: 8019020
-AVX Compute Time: 29270238
-AVX Write Time: 242170
-AVX Total Time: 37531428
-# Double called: 0
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-MEDIUM HYBRID:
-AVX Read Time: 7596629
-AVX Compute Time: 29979220
-AVX Write Time: 248485
-AVX Total Time: 37824334
-# Double called: 20329
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-LARGE FLOAT:
-AVX Read Time: 111888586
-AVX Compute Time: 408131806
-AVX Write Time: 3477892
-AVX Total Time: 523498284
-# Double called: 0
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-LARGE HYBRID:
-AVX Read Time: 109728994
-AVX Compute Time: 419475317
-AVX Write Time: 3575364
-AVX Total Time: 532779675
-# Double called: 310042
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